The ends of the earth

Autori

• Roger Willemsen

Parametri

• 480 pagine
• 17 ore di lettura

• Biografie e pensieri
• Mappe e viaggi
• Narrativa
• Saggistica
• Turismo / Viaggi

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An author, foreign correspondent, academic, and television personality, Roger Willemsen is a familiar figure in Germany, and The Ends of the Earth offers English-language readers a chance to engage with his uniquely astute take on the world. Consisting of twenty-two essays recounting and reflecting on a lifetime of travel to the far and forgotten corners of our planet, the book offers remarkable encounters and mysterious entanglements in locations as diverse as a Kamchatkan volcano, a Burmese railway station, an Arctic icebreaker, and a Minsk hospital ward. Willemsen is the perfect companion, reveling in the strange and unlovely, and tracing unexpected connections among places, times, and peoples.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2015